Asset-liability management (ALM) is a term whose meaning has evolved. It is used in slightly different ways in different contexts. ALM was pioneered by financial institutions, but corporations now also apply ALM techniques. In banking, asset and liability management is the practice of managing...

Private equity is an alternative form of financing companies, besides classical methods (bank loan or bonds), which is done in exchange of a part of the share capital of the company. This funding is realized by investors interested in the company that also offer portfolio companies expertise in...

The golden rule of financial equilibrium state the noncurrent resources should finance noncurrent assets and current resources should finance current assets. Managing working capital suppose to provide cash, which is indispensable for a company to run its day-by-day activities. The main aim of...

Financial institutions, like any other company for that matter, have as a main objective the diversification and expansion of revenue and profit sources. To this purpose they have expanded ever more their activity across national borders. But, as it is well known, especially if we relate to the...

Credit risk is defined as that risk of financial loss caused by failure by the counterparty. According to statistics, for financial institutions, credit risk is much important than market risk, reduced diversification of the credit risk is the main cause of bank failures. Just recently, the...

A milestone for any private company is the issuance of publicly traded stocks. While the motivations and mechanism of the initial public offer are straightforward, the dynamics of the IPO activity is quite complex. Both the number of initial public offerings and the total capital raised in these...

The major changes that took place in the last decades in the European economic environment, prompted by the deregulation of the financial markets, the European integration process and lately by the financial crisis started in 2007 have determined also shifts in the corporate governance models...

Due to the importance of the financial instability and of its negative consequences within the economies, especially in the emerging ones, it is important to sstudy the link between financial instability and investments, as a factor of economic stability. Therefore, the paper aims to analyze the...

Corporate governance represents the system through which a company is being controlled and managed. In defining of this concept, works on the idea overall performance of the company is based on the theory of interest holders. The paper concerns about the relationship between corporate governance...